Not to answer your question, but if I may ask gently, why is your door unlocked? No need to post an answer, but please do consider the reason. There *are* a very few, and I do mean very few good reasons to leave your door unlocked, but as a matter of course we need to remember to layer our defenses. I don't care where I live, or how good my neighborhood is, leaving a door unlocked is simply asking for avoidable trouble. I don't need to determine whether an intruder needs to be stopped if that intruder never intrudes to begin with.Abraham wrote: "with force" has me asking if a complete stranger walks into my home as the door is unlocked and this person has NO presumption to be their - What is my legal standing regarding their presence?
Just some food for thought.